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  1. Sun 3rd Jan '10 1:26pm #1
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    Post Promoting threads in forums to articles automatically

    I've searched trough my admin CP and the front page, but I couldn't find this. Is it somehow possible to promote topics in certain forums to articles (in a specific section, of course) automatically when posted? For example, I have a 'Weird news' forum, and I want to have a section in the CMS for the same kind of news. It would be nice if I could promote all topics in the forum section to articles without having to promote them each individually. I know this might create double content, but is it possible to do right now?

    Likewise, is it possible to make all articles in certain categories show up as topics in a certain part of the forum as well (so only for specific categories, not for all articles together)?

    Thanks for any help.
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  2. Mon 4th Jan '10 11:28am #2
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  3. Mon 4th Jan '10 6:34pm #3
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    No, forum posts can only be promoted to articles when the button is pressed.

    Haven't looked at creating an RSS feed for a particular section yet. This may be possible though to pull articles through as threads.

    EDIT: Just created a feed for a section on my forum OK.
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  4. Mon 4th Jan '10 8:54pm #4
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    Can you do a step-by-step on the process for setting that up, Trevor?

    Thanks.
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    - Copy the link from the RSS feed icon in your section then add it to the RSS Feed Manager in AdminCP:

    http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/rssfeed_manager
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Hannant View Post
    - Copy the link from the RSS feed icon in your section then add it to the RSS Feed Manager in AdminCP:

    http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/main/rssfeed_manager
    Where do you set the RSS Feed Manager to publish to CMS? It seems you can only publish to forums.
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    As per my post above:

    No, forum posts can only be promoted to articles when the button is pressed.

    Haven't looked at creating an RSS feed for a particular section yet. This may be possible though to pull articles through as threads.

    EDIT: Just created a feed for a section on my forum OK.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trevor Hannant View Post
    No, forum posts can only be promoted to articles when the button is pressed.

    Haven't looked at creating an RSS feed for a particular section yet. This may be possible though to pull articles through as threads.

    EDIT: Just created a feed for a section on my forum OK.
    Ah, okay, thanks. Is there any chance this might be added later on?
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